Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh - He who is without Jurist
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh(Vol. 4)
He who is without Jurist
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
Translated by Bab Ul Qaim Publications
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruhū al-Faqīh, compiled by Shaykh al-Ṣadūq (Ibn Baḅawayh, d. 381 AH), is the second of the Four Main Shīʿī Ḥadīth collections and was expressly assembled as a practical handbook for any believer “who has no access to a jurist.” Unlike larger compendia, it presents each tradition succinctly—often omitting full chains of transmission—to focus squarely on the legal rulings and devotional practices essential to daily life. In its classical form it is a single work; modern printed editions typically span four volumes, comprising just under a thousand chapters arranged by topic.
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruhū al-Faqīh, compiled by Shaykh al-Ṣadūq (Ibn Baḅawayh, d. 381 AH), is the second of the Four Main Shīʿī Ḥadīth collections and was expressly assembled as a practical handbook for any believer “who has no access to a jurist.” Unlike larger compendia, it presents each tradition succinctly—often omitting full chains of transmission—to focus squarely on the legal rulings and devotional practices essential to daily life. In its classical form it is a single work; modern printed editions typically span four volumes, comprising just under a thousand chapters arranged by topic.
Section 1
Chapter 1
1 ḤadīthPrelude
Chapter 2
1 ḤadīthChapter on Mentioning Some of the Prohibitions of the Prophet {saws}
Chapter 3
8 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Looking at Women
Chapter 4
11 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Adultery
Chapter 5
59 AḥadīthChapter on What Necessitates Discretionary Punishment, Legal Punishment, Stoning, Execution, and Exile in Adultery
Chapter 6
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for Sodomy and Tribadism
Chapter 7
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment of Slaves in Adultery
Chapter 8
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for Intercourse with an Animal
Chapter 9
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for a Procurer
Chapter 10
25 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for Slanderous Accusation
Chapter 11
10 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for Drinking Alcohol and Reports Regarding Singing and Amusements
Chapter 12
33 AḥadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for Theft
Chapter 13
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Implementation of Legal Punishments on the Mute, the Deaf, and the Blind
Chapter 14
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for the One Who Consumes Usury After Proof
Chapter 15
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Legal Punishment for the One Who Consumes Carrion, Blood, and Pork
Chapter 16
1 ḤadīthChapter on Obligations When Multiple Legal Punishments Are Combined Upon a Man
Chapter 17
15 AḥadīthChapter on Rare Cases of Legal Punishments
Chapter 18
1 ḤadīthChapter on Blood Money for the Limbs and Joints, and Blood Money for the Nutfah (sperm), Alaqah (clinging clot), Mudghah (embryonic lump), Bones, and the Soul
Chapter 19
24 AḥadīthChapter on Prohibition of Shedding Blood and Taking Wealth Unlawfully, the Prohibition of Engaging in the Impermissible, and Repentance From Killing Whether Intentional or Accidental
Chapter 20
7 AḥadīthChapter on Qasamah (oath of Allegation in Cases of murder)
Chapter 21
12 AḥadīthChapter on Those Who Have No Blood Money in Cases of Injury or
Chapter 22
29 AḥadīthChapter on Retaliation (qisas) and the Amount of Blood Money (diyyah)
Chapter 23
4 AḥadīthChapter on One Whose Mistake is Considered Intentional
Chapter 24
2 AḥadīthChapter on One Whose Intentional Act is Considered a Mistake
Chapter 25
1 ḤadīthChapter on One Who Commits a Crime Deserving Legal Punishment and Then Seeks Refuge in the Sacred Sanctuary (haram)
Chapter 26
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Ruling Regarding a Man Who Kills Two or More Men, and a Group That Gathers to Kill a Man
Chapter 27
5 AḥadīthChapter on Injuries and Killing Between Women and Men
Chapter 28
4 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who Kills His Son, His Father, or His Mother
Chapter 29
27 AḥadīthChapter on a Muslim Killing a Dhimmi, a Slave, a Mudabbar, or a Mukatab, or Them Killing a Muslim
Chapter 30
19 AḥadīthChapter on What Requires Full Blood Money and Half Blood Money in Cases Other Than the Taking of a Life
Chapter 31
10 AḥadīthChapter on the Blood Money for Fingers, Teeth, and Bones
Chapter 32
3 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who is Killed, and Some of His Heirs Pardon While Others Demand Retaliation or Blood Money
Chapter 33
6 AḥadīthChapter on Al-'aqilah (collective Responsibility for Blood money)
Chapter 34
2 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding a Man Who Strikes Another Man, Causing Continuous Urination
Chapter 35
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Blood Money for the Nutfah (sperm), Alaqah (clinging clot), Mudghah (embryonic lump), Bone, and Fetus
Chapter 36
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory When a Muslim Man is in the Land of Polytheism and is Killed by Muslims, and Then the Imam Becomes Aware of it
Chapter 37
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Steps on a man's Abdomen Causing Him to Soil His Clothes
Chapter 38
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Man Who Transgresses in Marrying a Woman and Persists Until She Dies
Chapter 39
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Blood Money for the Tongue of a Mute Person
Chapter 40
2 AḥadīthChapter on What is Obligatory in Cases of ifda' (causing Reproductive rupture)
Chapter 41
2 AḥadīthChapter on What is Obligatory for One Upon Whom Hot Water is Poured on His Head, Causing His Hair to Fall Out
Chapter 42
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory in the Case of a Shaved Beard
Chapter 43
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Cuts His wife's Private Part
Chapter 44
2 AḥadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Kicks a Woman in Her Private Part, and She Claims That She No Longer Menstruates
Chapter 45
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Blood Money for the Joints of the Fingers
Chapter 46
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Blood Money for the Testicles
Chapter 47
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Four Persons Who Kill a Man; a Slave, a Free Man, a Free Woman, and a Mukatab.
Chapter 48
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Tortures His Slave Until He Dies
Chapter 49
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Blood Money for the Child of Adultery
Chapter 50
7 AḥadīthChapter on Reports Regarding One Who Digs a Well or Something Else in His Own Property or in another's Property, and a Person Falls Into it and Perishes
Chapter 51
6 AḥadīthChapter on What is Obligatory When an Animal Strikes a Person with Its Front or Hind Legs
Chapter 52
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Two Men Who Together Sever the Hand of a Man
Chapter 53
4 AḥadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Severes the Head of a Deceased Person
Chapter 54
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding a Slap That Causes Blackening, Greening, or Reddening
Chapter 55
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Approaches a Sleeping Man, and When He Turns on His Back, He Awakens and Kills Him
Chapter 56
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Three People Who Together Demolish a Wall, and it Falls on One of Them, Causing His Death
Chapter 57
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Man Who is Killed While He Has an Outstanding Debt
Chapter 58
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Liability of a Wet Nurse if She Rolls Over a Child, Causing Death, or Hands the Child Over to Another Wet Nurse Who Then Disappears with the Child
Chapter 59
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Liability is Obligatory Upon the Owner of a Dog if it Bites
Chapter 60
1 ḤadīthTechapter 59 - Chapter on Umm Al-Walad Killing Her Master by Mistake or Intentionar
Chapter 61
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon One Who Sets Fire to the House of a People, Causing the House and Its Inhabitants to Burn
Chapter 62
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Upon the Owner of a Frenzied Camel if it Kills a Man
Chapter 63
1 ḤadīthChapter on What is Obligatory Regarding the Execution of Retaliation (qisas)
Chapter 64
4 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding a Thief Who Overpowers a Woman for Her Private Part and Kills Her Child
Chapter 65
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Woman Who Brings a Man Into Her husband's House, and Her Husband Kills Him, and the Woman Then Kills Her Husband, and What is Obligatory in That Case
Chapter 66
1 ḤadīthChapter on One Who Dies in the Crowds of Eid, Arafah, or Near a Well or Bridge, and it is Unknown Who Killed Him
Chapter 67
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who is Killed and Found in Dismembered Parts
Chapter 68
1 ḤadīthChapter on Head Wounds and Their Names
Chapter 69
2 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding One Who Kills and Then Flees
Chapter 70
7 AḥadīthChapter on the Blood Money for Wounds and Head Injuries
Chapter 71
14 AḥadīthChapter on Rare Cases of Blood Money (diyyat)
Chapter 72
7 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests From the Time of Adam {a.s}
Chapter 73
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Favor That Allah {swt}, Blessed and Exalted, Bestows Upon His Servant at the Time of Death by Restoring His Sight, Hearing, and Intellect So That He May Make a Bequest
Chapter 74
1 ḤadīthChapter on allah's {swt}, Mighty and Majestic, Proof Against the One Who Neglects Making a Bequest
Chapter 75
2 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests Being an Obligation Upon Every Muslim
Chapter 76
1 ḤadīthChapter on Bequests Completing What is Deficient in Zakat
Chapter 77
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Reward of One Who Makes a Bequest Without Bias or Harm
Chapter 78
1 ḤadīthChapter on Reports Regarding One Who Does Not Make a Bequest at the Time of Death for His Relatives Who Do Not Inherit Anything From His Wealth, Whether Small or Large
Chapter 79
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding One Who Does Not Make a Proper Bequest at the Time of Death
Chapter 80
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Reward of One Whose Life Ends with Goodness in Speech or Action
Chapter 81
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding Harming the Heirs
Chapter 82
1 ḤadīthChapter on Justice and Injustice in Bequests
Chapter 83
1 ḤadīthChapter on Bias in Bequests Being Among the Major Sins
Chapter 84
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Recommended Amount for Bequests
Chapter 85
6 AḥadīthChapter on the Obligation of Returning a Bequest to What is Proper and What the Deceased is Entitled to From His Wealth
Chapter 86
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Formulation of the Bequest
Chapter 87
3 AḥadīthChapter on Bearing Witness to the Bequest
Chapter 88
5 AḥadīthChapter on the First Matters to Be Addressed From Estate of the Deceased
Chapter 89
2 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests for an Heir
Chapter 90
5 AḥadīthChapter on Refusing to Accept a Bequest
Chapter 91
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Age at Which a child's Bequest Becomes Valid
Chapter 92
3 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests Made Through Writing and Gestures
Chapter 93
4 AḥadīthChapter on Revoking a Bequest
Chapter 94
1 ḤadīthChapter on One Who Makes a Bequest Exceeding One-Third While His Heirs Are Present and Approve it, if They Can Revoke it After His Death
Chapter 95
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Obligation of Executing the Bequest and the Prohibition of Altering it
Chapter 96
4 AḥadīthChapter on a person's Right Over His Wealth as Long as There Remains Some Life in Him
Chapter 97
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Bequest of One Who Intentionally Takes His Own Life
Chapter 98
2 AḥadīthChapter on Two Men Being Appointed as Executors of a Bequest, and Each Taking Charge of Half of the Estate
Chapter 99
5 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests of a Portion of Wealth, a Share, a Part, or a Large Amount
Chapter 100
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who Makes a Bequest of Wealth in the Way of Allah
Chapter 101
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Liability of the Executor for Altering What the Deceased Had Bequeathed
Chapter 102
3 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests for Relatives and Freed Slaves
Chapter 103
2 AḥadīthChapter on Appointing a Competent or an Incompetent Person as an Executor of a Bequest
Chapter 104
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Beneficiary of a Bequest Dying Before the Testator or Before Receiving What Was Bequeathed to Him
Chapter 105
15 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests for Manumission, Charity, and Hajj
Chapter 106
3 AḥadīthChapter on Bequests for the Mukatab and Umm Al-Walad
Chapter 107
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Making a Bequest of a Sword, a Chest, or a Ship to Another Man
Chapter 108
2 AḥadīthChapter on One Who Does Not Make a Bequest While Having Heirs, if His Estate Divided Among Them or Sold for Their Benefit
Chapter 109
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Man Who Makes a Bequest, but the Executor Forgets it and Only Remembers One Part of it
Chapter 110
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Executor Purchasing From the deceased's Estate When it is Sold to the Highest Bidder
Chapter 111
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Disinheriting His Son for Having Relations with His father's Umm Al-Walad
Chapter 112
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Cessation of an orphan's Orphanhood
Chapter 113
1 ḤadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding One Who Refuses to Take His Wealth After Reaching Maturity
Chapter 114
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Executor Withholding the heir's Wealth After Maturity, Leading Him to Commit Adultery Due to His Inability to Marry
Chapter 115
3 AḥadīthChapter on What Has Been Reported Regarding One Who Makes a Bequest or Frees a Slave While in Debt
Chapter 116
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Clearance of the deceased's Liability From Debt When Someone Guarantees it for the Creditors with Their Consent
Chapter 117
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Sold Item That Remains Intact When the Buyer Dies While in Debt and Owing Its Price
Chapter 118
1 ḤadīthChapter on Settling Debt From Blood Money (diyyah)
Chapter 119
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Disapproval of Appointing a Woman as an Executor of a Bequest
Chapter 120
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Obligation of the Executor of the Executor in Fulfilling the Bequest
Chapter 121
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who Bequeaths a Portion of His Wealth to Another and is Then Killed by Mistake
Chapter 122
2 AḥadīthChapter on a Man Who Appoints Another as the Guardian of His Children and Their Wealth, Permitting Him at the Time of the Bequest to Invest the Wealth, with the Profits Shared Between Him and Them
Chapter 123
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Acknowledgment of Debt by a Sick Person in Favor of an Heir
Chapter 124
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Acknowledgment of Emancipation or Debt by Some of the Heirs
Chapter 125
1 ḤadīthChapter on a Man Who Dies While in Debt and Has Dependents
Chapter 126
19 AḥadīthChapter on Rare Cases of Bequests
Chapter 127
28 AḥadīthChapter on Endowments, Charity, and Gifts
Chapter 128
5 AḥadīthChapter on Sukuna, Umra, and Ruqba (types of Conditional Property grants)
Chapter 129
5 AḥadīthChapter on Nullification of 'awl (proportional reduction) in Inheritance
Chapter 130
7 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Direct Offspring
Chapter 131
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Parents
Chapter 132
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Husband and the Wife
Chapter 133
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Direct Offspring and Parents
Chapter 134
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Husband Alongside the Offspring
Chapter 135
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Wife Alongside the Offspring
Chapter 136
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Offspring and Parents Alongside the Husband
Chapter 137
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Offspring and Parents Alongside the Wife
Chapter 138
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Parents Alongside the Husband and Wife
Chapter 139
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Offspring of Offspring
Chapter 140
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Parents Alongside the Offspring of Offspring
Chapter 141
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Offspring of Offspring Alongside the Husband and the Wife
Chapter 142
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Parents, Brothers, and Sisters
Chapter 143
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Parents, the Husband, the Brothers, and the Sisters
Chapter 144
1 ḤadīthChapter on Those Who Are Not Prevented From Inheriting
Chapter 145
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Brothers and Sisters
Chapter 146
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Husband and the Wife Alongside the Brothers and Sisters
Chapter 147
28 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Grandfathers and Grandmothers
Chapter 148
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Distant Kindred (dhawi Al-arham)
Chapter 149
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Distant Kindred (dhawi Al-arham) Alongside Freed Slaves (mawali)
Chapter 150
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Freed Slaves (mawali)
Chapter 151
5 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Those Who Drown or Are Buried Under a Collapsed House When it is Unclear Who Died First
Chapter 152
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Fetus, the Newborn, and the Stillborn
Chapter 153
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Two Children Who Are Married, and Then One of Them Dies
Chapter 154
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Mutual Inheritance of the Divorcer and the Divorced Woman
Chapter 155
4 AḥadīthChapter on the Mutual Inheritance of a Man and a Woman Whom He Marries and Then Divorces During His Illness
Chapter 156
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of a Woman Whose Husband Has Passed Away
Chapter 157
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Woman Who Has Been Granted khul' (divorce in Exchange for compensation)
Chapter 158
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Captive
Chapter 159
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of a Child of Uncertain Parentage
Chapter 160
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of a Child Whose Father Disowns Him After Previously Acknowledging Him
Chapter 161
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Child of Adultery
Chapter 162
8 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Killer, Who Inherits From Blood Money and Who Does Not
Chapter 163
10 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Son of li'an (mutual cursing)
Chapter 164
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of One Who Embraces Islam or is Freed Before Receiving Inheritance
Chapter 165
5 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Hermaphrodite
Chapter 166
1 ḤadīthChapter on the Inheritance of a Newborn Born with Two Heads
Chapter 167
5 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Missing Person
Chapter 168
2 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Apostate
Chapter 169
3 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of One Who Has No Heir
Chapter 170
15 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Followers of Different Religions
Chapter 171
9 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of Slaves
Chapter 172
5 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Mukatab (contracted slave)
Chapter 173
18 AḥadīthChapter on the Inheritance of the Magians (zoroastrians)
Chapter 174
5 AḥadīthChapter on Rare Cases, and it is the Last Chapter of the Book (man La Yahduruhu Al faqih)
Chapter 175
155 AḥadīthAmong the Concise Words of the Messenger of Allah (peace Be Upon him)
